🇯🇵Old Japanese Tattoo

日本の文化としての刺青

Is it "Mad Max Thunder Dome" that Japanese style tattoos have become widely known? Or is it "Nikki Sixx"?

By the way! This blog is about the historic tattoo culture called "Irezumi" in Japan.

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In the Edo period, Irezumi became popular.

The description that the prostitute and the guest carved each other's names on their bodies in the sense of swearing eternal love begins to appear in the literature.

Eventually, this physical processing will be used as a method of vows even among the Nin-kyo guys (Old Yakuza).

Edo period / about 1603-1870

Edo / The old Tokyo

In addition, he was engaged in work such as construction and preparation for festivals, and Irezumi was also liked by security guards and firefighters in the town.

These people often worked in loincloths rather than in kimonos that were difficult to move, but they also thought it was embarrassing to expose their skin, so they wore irezumi.

Eventually, in Edo society, the image of "Irezumi for firefighters" became stronger.

And "Tobi", which fights as a fire extinguisher in blaze fire, was a symbol of Edo's "chic"!

The Irezumi was also the pride of the city "EDO" they lived in!!

🧐Finaly!!

In japan case, Tattoo were originally a historical "Edo" culture.

Yea, Was not fashion!

That is why it is still bit unacceptable to Japanese civil servant workers.

And that is not discrimination to tattoo, but an awe for "Irezumi" for many Japanese.

Ken's Report

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Irezumi in Ukiyo-e

浮世絵にみる刺青 - INJA

https://injart.org/ja/exhibition/tattoos-in-japanese-prints/

May 31, 2019 to August 18, 2019

The big boom "Irezumi" caused by Kuniyoshi Utagawa's "One of the 108 Heroes of the Popular Suikoden" (1827-1830) series. The hero's paintings, which show off their gorgeously inked skin, have created many followers, and historical figures and even popular actors of the time are now painted with colorfully decorated skin. Designs drawn as symbols of morale, courage, and strength, such as lions, dragons, peonies, large snakes, and Fudo Myo, have survived the ban in the early Meiji era and have been passed down to lovers who roam the modern city.

歌川国芳の《通俗水滸伝豪傑百八人之一個》（1827〜1830）シリーズが巻き起こした一大ブーム「刺青」。絢爛豪華に墨を載せた肌を誇示するヒーローの絵は幾多の追随者を生み、歴史上の人物や当代の人気役者までが、色彩豊かに飾り立てた肌で描かれるようになりました。獅子、龍、牡丹、大蛇に不動明王など、俠気と剛勇、力強さの象徴として描かれた図柄は、明治初期の禁止令を生き延びて、現代の都会を闊歩する愛好家にも受け継がれています。